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Pythagoreans (Founded by Pythagoras (gave his own life to protect Fava…

- - - - had to run for his life but stopped before a field of beans. He would rather die, he declared, than step on a single bean. He let the men cut his throat so that the beans could live.
- - - - a triangle with 10 points across four rows, meant to symbolize the organization of space and the universe.
      - Ten, they believed, was the number of the highest order, which contained the course of all mortal things.
      - And they literally worshiped it.
      - “Bless us, divine number, thou who generated gods and men!” they would say. “For the divine number begins with the profound, pure unity until it comes to the holy four; then it begets the mother of all, the all-comprising, all-bounding, the firstborn, the never-swerving, the never-tiring holy ten, the keyholder of all.”
      - you had to swear an oath to the holy triangle
  - - - Pythagoras held his head under water and died
        
        story is probably not true more of a parable